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Hello and welcome
to Dolores County, Colorado! This site is available for adoption. If
you are interested in adopting this county please contact the State Coordinator.

This web site was created to help you
with your genealogy research. I hope you find many pleasant
surprises as you browse the pages. I will be adding new information on
a regular basis, so check back often! Many thanks to Teri Cleaveland
for her years of hard work getting this website started.

If you have any
old letters, documents, yearbooks or even old photos, just let me know, and
we'll get them online to share with others.

I don't live in the area, so won't be able to do personal
research for you, or answer questions about real estate or other
non-genealogy type questions. I do have a personal interest in the
area, as my great-grandparents came to this area in 1885 and my grandparents
lived outside Dolores for over 80 years.

HISTORY

Dolores County, Colorado is situated in south - western corner of
Colorado, in the center of some of Colorado’s richest ranch land. In 1877
Ouray is carved out of Gunnison County, and in 1881 Dolores is sectioned out
of Ouray. The county seat is Dove Creek. Check out the
Colorado County
Evolution map to see a timeline of how the counties were formed.

Dolores County's name comes from the Dolores River, the Rio de Nuestra
de los dolores reported by Father Escalante in 1776. Rico, the only town
in the county in 1881 was named county seat. It lost the designation to Dove
Creek in 1941 because of the latter's increased population and business
activity, and the formers mining decline. Today, the town of Dolores
is in Montezuma County.